Islington Open Source Community is a virtual organization that works to share knowledge and build capacity around open source products and tools. It acts as a joint platform for existing open source groups in Nepal like GDG, Mozilla, PHP, and Python. The community conducts training workshops on various open source products and organizes seminars and events at the college, national, and international levels. It has collaborated with groups like Mozilla Nepal, FOSS Nepal, Nepal Wikipedia, and Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal to hold events on topics like a Mozilla orientation seminar, a FOSS discussion, a developers meet, and a Firefox OS apps workshop. Upcoming events include a Wikipedia education program, another developers meet, and an Arduino programming workshop.

1. Islington Open Source
Community

2. Agenda
• Introduction to Islington Open source
Community.
• Open Source and Freeware
• Open Source Communities in Nepal
• Communities we have worked with.
• Events That have been Conducted.
• Events That are in Order.

3. Introduction
Islington Open source community is a virtual
structure of students, faculties and open source
experts, which work for knowledge sharing and
capacity building of various Open source products,
and tools.
Moreover, it acts as a joint platform for all existing
open source groups and forums.eg. GDG, Mozilla,
PHP, Python, Ruby.

4. Introduction (Contd.)
• Conducting training/workshops for various open
source products.
• Calling experts on specific area for knowledge
sharing.
• Organizing college/national/international level
seminars events on open source.

5. Open source & Freeware
• Open Source
– Available to everyone.
– Anyone can edit.
– Anyone can extract some part and implement in
their project.
Basically, Justifies the word “OPEN”

6. Open source & Freeware
• Freeware
– Basically, the application itself is free of cost
but
user possessing it cannot
edit, extract or hinder
the original source code of the project

7. Open source Communities in Nepal
• Google Developers Group (GDG).
• Mozilla Nepal.
• Nepali Wikipedia (ne.wikipedia.org).
• Free Open Source Society (FOSS) Nepal.
• PHP Developers Nepal.
• Android Developers Nepal.
• Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal.
• Ruby Developers Nepal

8. Communities we have worked with.
• Mozilla Nepal
• FOSS Nepal
• Nepal Wikipedia
• Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal (OKNF)
• Developers Nepal (United Group)

9. Events That have been Conducted.
• Mozilla Nepal Orientation Seminar
• The Classic “FOSS Ka Kura”
• Developer’s Meet #1
• Firefox OS AppsDays

10. Events That are in Order.
• Wikipedia Education Program
• Developers Meet #2
• Arduino Programming Workshop